Julia Manning is Chief Executive of 2020Health. Follow Julia on Twitter. In September 2007, Mrs Bella Bailey was admitted to Mid-Staffordshire NHS Hospital Trust. She was ill, but not dying. After the first few days her family were so shocked at her treatment and the neglect of other in-patients they started a 24 hour vigil […]
Julia Manning is Chief Executive of 2020Health. In the ‘Emperor’s new clothes’, everyone from the Emperor to his ministers to the townsfolk, not wanting to appear stupid, go along with the pretence that the Emperor’s new suit is fabulous. It takes a child to blurt out the truth that there is nothing there, but even […]
Julia Manning is Chief Executive of 2020Health. On the eve of the most famous unplanned pregnancy of all time (unplanned by the parents, at any rate), 2020health has supported the Cross-Party Inquiry into Unplanned Pregnancy. Unintentional conception still happens – to knowledgeable doctors, to articulate teenagers, to wives of Prime Ministers – not the usual stereotypes. […]
Julia Manning is Chief Executive of 2020Health. On Wednesday, a huge international summit hosted by Melinda Gates and DfiD will take place with the focus on access to contraception. I went to Kenya 2 weeks ago, funded by the Gates Foundation, to look at women's health. Whilst I support this call for access, if we don't address the […]
Julia Manning is Chief Executive of 2020Health. The vision of 2020health is to create a healthy society. Our response to the Queen’s Speech is to test its measures with our six criteria. Are they likely to – • Improve health and mental health outcomes? • Stimulate personal and private investment in health and social care or […]
Julia Manning is Chief Executive of 2020Health. The Veteran’s Health Association (VHA) is a major part of the Department of Veterans Affairs in the USA, which delivers federal benefits and patient care to veterans of the armed forces. Its mission is “to keep patients healthy”, and to that end, it employs 225,000 staff in 153 hospitals […]
Julia Manning is Chief Executive of 2020Health. Shoddy, pitiful care for the elderly and failing care homes are back in the papers today, being flagged up by a team of Telegraph journos (Emily Gosden, Tim Ross, Martin Beckford and Richard Alleyne). It's understandable that the challenges that this neglect and inadequate care raises are put in terms of 'human rights'. […]
Julia Manning is Chief Executive of 2020Health. Past Present Comment Commissioning would be GP led in ‘GP Commissioning Consortia’. Name change – Commissioning will be undertaken by ‘Clinical Commissioning Consortia’. We welcome this change in terminology – the commissioning term should have been more inclusive. GPs could decide who would be on their Commissioning board. Loss of […]
Julia Manning is Chief Executive of 2020Health. Following the Prime Minister’s Downing Street Business Summit yesterday it can’t be a complete coincidence that Sir Michael Rawlins (Chairman of NICE and Senior Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences) review of the regulation and governance of UK clinical research was published today. Scientific research is central […]
Julia Manning is Chief Executive of 2020health.org, a web-based, centre-right think tank for Health and Social Care which uniquely focuses on bottom-up policy development by front line professionals. Maybe I wasn’t watching, but I can’t remember this much speculation, hype and opinion-mongering around a health white paper as there has been around Andrew Lansley’s first […]
Julia Manning is Chief Executive of 2020health.org, a web-based, centre-right think tank for Health and Social Care which uniquely focuses on bottom-up policy development by front line professionals. Pav Kahlon is a researcher at 2020health.org. Last week's conference on the Post-Bureaucratic Age (PBA) highlighted the growing need for transparency as a key to reform – […]
Julia is Director of 2020health.org, a web-based, centre-right Think Tank for Health and Social Care and uniquely focuses on bottom-up policy development by front line professionals. She also blogs at CentreRight.com. ‘The promise of happiness has created an epidemic of depression’ says Tobias Jones in the first chapter of his brilliant book ‘Utopian Dreams’. It’s […]
Julia Manning, Director of 2020health.org, says that discrediting new vaccines such as the MMR risks the lives of more than those who don’t take them. Last week, 2020health.org held a seminar on the crucial role that modern vaccines have to play in the delivery of Public Health in the UK. We heard a story from […]
Julia Manning is Chief Executive of 2020Health. Follow Julia on Twitter. A culture of fear, paternalism and concealment still stalk the corridors and wards of the NHS – and if we didn’t know it after mid-Staffs, we know it now – and in the NHS regulator the Care Quality Commission (CQC) as well. I will come back […]